Improved conductor for rolling-mills



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Letters Patent No. 93,699, dated August 17, 1869.

IMPROVE!) CONDUCTOR Foa nommer-MILLS..-

The Schedule referred to nthese Letters Patentand making part of the same.

To all whom Muay concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN GEARING, of the cityof Iittsbm'g, in the county ofAllegheny, and State of Pennsylvania, have vinvented a new and improved Mode or Method of Conducting Band and Hoop# `Iro1iiioin'1olls; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, referabove said trough or conductor, so farras said movable guide extends, the whole, taken together, acting as a cheap, eieetiveand simple mode' of receiving andconn ducting band and hoop-iron from rolls.

'lo enable others skilled iu the art tomake and use my invention, I will proceed to describe. its construction and operation.`

1 construct my trough nrmconductor, of iron,.or other metal, or material, the sides of which are to be bolted together, ,as shown at 1 1, Figure 1, with rods running from side to side, .operating as a base or support for the movable bottom H, said sides being dovetailed at the.l 2ends where they touch the rolls, as seen at 2 2, iig. 1, with a movable guide, F, being a continuation of thebottom, and covered by the cap E, iig. 1, the movable bottom H, fig. 1, being laid on the supports loosely, and extending from the guide-block to the end of the conductor, at A, and all constructed substantially as described. l

What I claim as my inventiomisl The improved conductor above described, consisting essentially of the several parts specified, all constructed and fitted together, as and for the purpose set forth. J OHN GEARING.4

XVitnesses :I

. EDWARD PERRY,

B. LoUTHER; 

